Full Idea
It is not clear why, in the measurement of the goodness of states of affairs or total outcomes, killings for instance should count so much more heavily than deaths.
Gist of Idea
If the aim is good outcomes, why are killings worse than deaths?
Source
report of Samuel Scheffler (The Rejection of Consequentialism [1982], pp.108-12) by Philippa Foot - Utilitarianism and the Virtues p.61
Book Reference
Foot,Philippa: 'Moral Dilemmas' [OUP 2002], p.61
A Reaction
Or drunken drivers worse than careless drivers. Or stolen bracelets than lost bracelets. The point is that morality is about the behaviour of people, and not about consequences.